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‎10-30-2015 08:46 AM

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Product: hp pavillion
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (32-bit)

Hi everyone. I'm not sure if this is a very silly question or not but..I recently bought a new hp laptop with windows 10 and so far I am not sure that I made the right decision. I cant seem to figure out what used to be very simple basics.

How do I highlight text? If I left click and drag I can see the text highlighting as I drag  but as  release the left click to stop highlighting, the blue highlighting disappears from the text again. Its so frustrating and makes my work on the laptop absolutely impossible. Am I doing something wrong? I know I can use the shift key and  across arrows to highlight and  also know that I can double click words or sentences to highlight them but this is very impractical for large areas of text or specific pieces of a large text. Any suggestions or fixes? Thanks Cathy

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